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The King of Time Machines is Still Hard at Work

Physicist says we might be able to visit the past, but getting back to the future is another story

Dont get your spurs and six-shooter ready for a visit to the Old West, but scientists at the Technion Institute in Israel have made some theoretical headway towards a time machine. Physicist Amos Ori has been in the time travel business for a few years now we published a primer on his ideas here but now he says that hes developed a theoretical model showing that future generations could one day travel to the past.

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